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Post by D'Elete BC in NJ on Nov 26, 2008 6:46:05 GMT -8
www.usatoday.com/travel/cruises/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=58824274.blog
USA TODAY Exclusive: Early look at Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the SeasQuite a few readers have asked to see photos of Oasis in a bigger format, so we've added a photo gallery that contains larger images. What will the world's biggest cruise ship look like? Let's just say the word massive doesn't even begin to describe it. USA TODAY has obtained exclusive photos of Royal Caribbean's much-ballyhooed, 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas under construction in Europe, and they show a ship like no other in size and complexity. The 220,000-ton vessel, being built at the STX Europe shipyard in Turku, Finland, will reach a major milestone today when it is "floated out" on water for the first time, and these are the final shots of the ship out of water before it launches. Scheduled to debut late next year, Oasis is now 65% complete, says a Royal Caribbean spokesperson. The vessel is being built around seven "neighborhoods" including Central Park, an open-air atrium with live trees; Boardwalk, a family-friendly amusement area; the Royal Promenade, an indoor mall-like zone; and Entertainment Place, a sprawling nightclub district. Oasis and a sister ship scheduled to debut in 2010, Allure of the Seas, were named by USA TODAY readers earlier this year in a closely-watched nationwide contest that drew nearly 100,000 entries.
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Post by Ian on Dec 4, 2008 23:36:33 GMT -8
She is quiet the Ship although I think my opinion that a Ship is a Ship is a Ship is finally at its furthest extent. I would gladly take a smaller Ship that the Oasis of the Seas over the Oasis of the Seas to Captain. I want to have some of that exploration and nautical feel rather than a floating city feel.
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Post by WettCoast on Dec 27, 2008 5:59:32 GMT -8
Holiday Greetings to all from Costa Rica. While some of you will be busy saying 'adios' to Miss Vancouver, I will be sailing across the Golfo de Nacoya on a Costa Rican car ferry, journey length 90 minutes. This is on the Pacific side of the country. Over a period of two days we have been from the Atlantic to the Pacific with a stop in the middle for a hike over the Continental Divide. While spending several days on the Atlantic (Caribbean) side, I searched diligently for any sign of the Queen of Victoria, without success. We did see a Carnival Cruise Lines ship at the Port of Limon. If anyone knows the name of this ship please let me know. The photo was shot out of a tour bus window.  |
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Post by corporalrabbinoff on Dec 27, 2008 15:04:39 GMT -8
WCK Please be aware that you can search all you want for the Queen of Victoria and you will never find any trace of her. She was scrapped in India and no longer exists. See this link for proof and picture  www.lemonde.fr/web/illustration/0,32-0,40-742198,0.html |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 27, 2008 15:40:49 GMT -8
WCK Please be aware that you can search all you want for the Queen of Victoria and you will never find any trace of her. She was scrapped in India and no longer exists. See this link for proof and picture www.lemonde.fr/web/illustration/0,32-0,40-742198,0.html I think what WCK meant was that he was looking for any evidence of the Victoria "having previously been" in the Costa Rica area. ie. Between the time she had her fire & left Vancouver, and when we all saw the famous picture of her at Alang. |
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Post by Mike C on Dec 30, 2008 23:24:42 GMT -8
WCK: That photo you have is of the Carnival Destiny.
by the way, I'm glad you're enjoying your Costa Rica trip. I went in 2004, and the adventure was truly amazing! the highways are just as adventurous, especially the one to Monteverde, if you did that...
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Post by WettCoast on Dec 31, 2008 7:35:42 GMT -8
Yes, we went to Monteverde. The roads and ferries are a real change from what you see in the US & Canada. My comments about the Q of Victoria above were meant as humour. ;D More cruise boats for you...  Princess twins ( Island & Coral) in Costa Rican port of Puntareaus - 30 Dec 2008 |
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Post by Koastal Karl on Apr 8, 2009 11:23:31 GMT -8
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Post by Canucks on Apr 8, 2009 13:40:15 GMT -8
Whoa! This ship makes the Chilliwack look spectacular.  |
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Post by Balfour on Apr 8, 2009 14:52:52 GMT -8
It's a Floating hotel!  |
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Post by Mill Bay on Apr 8, 2009 15:05:38 GMT -8
It's all about those unobstructed sweeping ocean vistas that they think people are craving so desperately that they will always pay more to have them. It has something in common with the Coastals, though, I think.
Anyway, this is what you get when you let your computers go berserk and let computer assisted design software and rendering programs fix all the apparent 'mistakes' in any design. Sure, you get a near perfect design, that's stupefyingly efficient, dynamic and modern, but it has absolutely no human qualities to it.
I know some people will tell me that it's still people that are responsible for the ultimate design, but I find that increasingly hard to believe when confronted with ugly mugs like this. Beauty and subtlety certainly don't come into play, but the rule of form follows function certainly does: in this case the sole intent of capturing as much money as possible. It is utterly clean, cold calculating and efficient, gleaming white in the sun like someone's private little ivory tower, and that is exactly how it looks. No, not like an accountant, but like some sleek, hungry, predatory barracuda thirsty for tourist dollars, an simply a monument to the accumulation of wealth, and the insanity that it creates.
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Post by Mike C on Apr 8, 2009 19:32:38 GMT -8
Photos from my cruise a couple weeks ago can be found here |
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Post by Northern Exploration on Apr 8, 2009 20:08:28 GMT -8
Photos from my cruise a couple weeks ago can be found hereGreat pictures NewFlyer except you left off the ones of the buffet. |
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Post by Mike C on Apr 9, 2009 14:30:21 GMT -8
Photos from my cruise a couple weeks ago can be found hereGreat pictures NewFlyer except you left off the ones of the buffet. You're right... I'm going to miss the unlimited free food & buffet  |
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Post by Koastal Karl on Apr 30, 2009 20:56:32 GMT -8
A photo of the Golden Princess along side the drydock taken from the Esquimalt Lagoon  Amsterdam in the drydock  |
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Post by Ian on May 7, 2009 14:49:23 GMT -8
Did anyone get a chance to get some pictures of the Mariner of the Seas, when she was in Victoria yesterday. Biggest cruise ship to ever visit the west coast. 138000 tons
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Post by Koastal Karl on May 7, 2009 18:09:29 GMT -8
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Post by Mill Bay on May 8, 2009 8:28:15 GMT -8
Some photos from Wednesday of the Mariner of the Seas and the Carnival Splendor in Victoria  Ugly, uglier and ugliest. Is it just me, or are they now stealing design elements from other ships. Looks like the grabbed the wheelhouse off a Coastal, widened it out and pasted it on the rump of this giant iceberg. Have they started building double-ended cruise ships, now? |
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Post by Kahloke on May 8, 2009 8:33:59 GMT -8
Yep, those were the two that were in Seattle yesterday. Like I said in the 2009 Cruise Season thread, Mexico's loss is our gain!
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Post by rt1commuter on May 8, 2009 10:29:07 GMT -8
I actually really like the look of both the Splendor and the Mariner. They are both infinitely more ship like than the duck billed, flat sterned Golden "Lets build a floating apartment building" Princess.
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Post by Low Light Mike on May 24, 2009 9:23:29 GMT -8
"Something of the Seas" (Radiance or Serenade, I forget which), near Comox. Taken from the Queen of Chilliwack, 9:45pm May 23, 2009:   |
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Post by Low Light Mike on May 24, 2009 10:34:58 GMT -8
Something of The Seas was the Sernade. She was on course at 22 knots. Aft of her was the Zaandam (Holland America).
There was a third cruise ship. Aft of the Zaandam was the Diamond Princess. All three of them left Vancouver at around 1830 or so. Serenade arrived in Campbell River at around 2305. Bang on, Paul. The Chilliwack's public-address announced the Serenade and the Zaandam. And further south, off Hornby, I could see the 3rd ship in the distance. Ship watching can sure be fun. |
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Post by Koastal Karl on May 27, 2009 10:17:39 GMT -8
Some more photos from a week ago. The Norwegian Pearl one of the newest NCL ships in Victoria as one the regular Saturday nighters for this summer.  Holland America's Westerdam in Victoria also a regular Saturday nighter this summer  Star Princess another regular Saturday nighter in Victoria  Star Princess and Norwegian Pearl docked in Victoria  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jun 20, 2009 19:56:49 GMT -8
Saturday night recent-departures from Vancouver port. Photos taken from Neck Point park in Nanaimo. Here is the Serenade of the Seas:   And here's the Zuiderdam:  ....and same ship Zuiderdam with a focus / shake problem, which gives a weird effect to my photo:  |
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Post by Mill Bay on Jun 20, 2009 21:46:41 GMT -8
And here's the Zuiderdam: Zuider-dee and Zuider-dumb, hee-hee... as opposed to Tweedle-dee. |
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